That line, "You should have left the light on," is so brilliant. That's exactly the kind of thing someone might say when they're overcome with anger and not thinking very clearly. If the light had been on, none of this would have happened. That's how the mind works.
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link
She performed it last year for first time in almost 20 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyqvQVeVK9A
― Mark, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:38 (fourteen years ago) link
x-post Totally. Except for the first time I've thought maybe the song is kinda rational throughout. She's been having an affair with him, he said he was gonna leave his wife but now he's changed his mind, she's furious that he ever encouraged her to the point that now she's totally lost in love/hate.
― Tim F, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:39 (fourteen years ago) link
love that pinkpop clip. she did it the same way as a final encore when i saw her in '91. totally riveting.
― flying squid attack (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never thought of the song as being about an affair with a married man specifically. He's obviously an emotionally unavailable asshole, but there could be any number of reasons for that.
The soul-killing line for me is "but I knew you wanted me to be there" -- so, despite all her yelling and screaming and white-hot anger, she's still trying to convince herself that everything is really OK.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link
This helps:
WHY should I blame her that she filled my daysWith misery, or that she would of lateHave taught to ignorant men most violent ways,Or hurled the little streets upon the great.Had they but courage equal to desire?What could have made her peaceful with a mindThat nobleness made simple as a fire,With beauty like a tightened bow, a kindThat is not natural in an age like this,Being high and solitary and most stern?Why, what could she have done, being what she is?Was there another Troy for her to burn?
― Roman Polanski now sleeps in prison. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/25/AR2010032502363.html?hpid=topnews
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
that was an excellent read; she is an incredibly evocative writer
― ALLAH! *rolls on floor* (HI DERE), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Very heavy.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 26 March 2010 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/2011/08/sinead_split_a_p.jpg
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
45 year old woman in not-looking-like-when-she-was-20 shocker
― 69, Tuesday, July 12, 2011 5:52 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark
― jon/via/chia/pet 2.0 (kkvgz), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
tbf it's nothing to do with age, but more that she looks radically different from the image of her that many of us carry around in our minds. i know that i wouldn't have been able to identify her in the absence of clues
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
tbf 45 yo Sinead looks more like she's 13
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
Wait... the woman in black is Sinead?!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:49 (twelve years ago) link
y
― dell (del), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
A minute after that photo was taken she adjusted the mike down and started singing out of her bellybutton.
― the girl from spirea x (f. hazel), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
jeezo
― jed_, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 22:00 (twelve years ago) link
The singer has crafted a rather thorough list of musts ("Must be blind enough to think I'm gorgeous") and must nots ("Must not be named Brian or Nigel").
Oh, and just in case you were wondering, the good times don't stop at the produce section.
"Let me now take time to make VERY clear that yes I 'do anal' and in fact I would be deeply unhappy if 'doing anal' wasn't on the menu, amongst everything else$$ So if u don't like 'the difficult brown'.. Don't apply..."
Also, women "will also be very much considered."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/sinead_n_941808.html
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 21:59 (twelve years ago) link
"Difficult brown?"
― kkvgz, Tuesday, 30 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
that's not how you seduce a man!
She is apparently touring soon!!! Feb 23-24 at Highline Ballroom. And I am totally hooked on "Fire on Babylon" at the moment; I cannot wait to go to this show
― Sally Field hysterically shrieking "Gloria fucking SWANSON!!!" (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 5 January 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
Maybe you'll marry her for 5 minutes!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 5 January 2012 20:39 (twelve years ago) link
maybe you can sell her some weed!
― The Silent Extreme (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
true, then she won't have to resort to crack
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Thursday, 5 January 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/12/sinead-oconnor-pleads-for-psychiatric-help-on-twitter--suicide-attempt_n_1201626.html
― buzza, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
Oh jeez, Sinead. I hope she's OK and also that her show in NYC in a month isn't cancelled
― lost ai weiwei (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it's not really funny, I hope she gets help soon!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
I am always rooting for this woman
― gord downer (Ówen P.), Thursday, 12 January 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
I feel for her, she seems really ill.
― Nicole, Thursday, 12 January 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
Great NYT profile/interview here, discussing the above and more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/12/arts/music/sinead-oconnors-how-about-i-be-me-and-you-be-you.html
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 February 2012 15:23 (twelve years ago) link
this album seems alright, half of one song in
― akm, Friday, 24 February 2012 05:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'm so ready to want a good Sinead album (the last one I bought was the forgettable one in 2000). "Reason With Me" gives me reason to hope.
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 24 February 2012 13:16 (twelve years ago) link
Her most underrated record is that "Gospel Oak" EP. I think this is one of the most beautiful songs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdeMkywlS54
My wife used to sing it to our kids.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 24 February 2012 15:09 (twelve years ago) link
This is all time, my friends:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-wwxSIgZH0
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 27 February 2012 18:30 (twelve years ago) link
:-/
With enormous regret I must announce that I have to cancel all touring for the year as am very unwell due to bi polar disorder.As you all know I had a very serious breakdown between December and March and I had been advised by my doctor not to go on tour but didn't want to 'fail' or let anyone down as the tour was already booked to coincide with album release. So very stupidly I ignored his advice to my great detriment, attempting to be stronger than I actually am.I apologise sincerely for any difficulties this may cause.
As you all know I had a very serious breakdown between December and March and I had been advised by my doctor not to go on tour but didn't want to 'fail' or let anyone down as the tour was already booked to coincide with album release. So very stupidly I ignored his advice to my great detriment, attempting to be stronger than I actually am.
I apologise sincerely for any difficulties this may cause.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
There's all sorts of weird timing at work here. She's quiet for a while, semi-retired. Then she suddenly goes public via social media. Then there's the crazy wedding and breakdown and possible suicide attempt (from an artist who has had breakdowns and suicide attempts in the past). Then the new album comes out and gets good reviews. Then she schedules a tour - she was great when I saw her a few years ago - and at least here the venues get pumped up from smaller spaces to bigger clubs. And then she cancels. I can only imagine the pressure she is under to fill coffers or whatever, because even I could have told her taking some time off would be a wise idea.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 23 April 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
She peaked creatively with "Troy" from the first album, y/n?
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 February 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
no
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
she peaked with that sound
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
and with the use of Yeatsian rhetoric
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
nah. Troy is grebt and easily makes any POV but IDNWWIHNG is pretty freakin strong start to finish.
― inste grammophon (rogermexico.), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
Her first album is my favourite but she does too many different things too brilliantly on that album for me to label any one of them her "peak".
― Tim F, Monday, 25 February 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
I would definitely agree that she peaked artistically with her first album, which I basically consider to be immaculate. Not sure I would agree with "creatively". All of her subsequent albums have at least one song on it I don't get at all.
― This beat is TWEENCHRONIC (DJP), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I love her first album SO much, one of my all time favorite albums no question. But the followup has a lot of great moments in it and I kind of feel like a song like Emperor's New Clothes, for example is the culmination of the sound she explored in Mandinka. There's a lot of things she does on that first album that she explores in new ways on the second. The first works better because of the rawness, but her refinement is interesting and appealing to me also
I really am full of shit though lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
What I meant to say: "Troy" was the height of using her voice in an inchoate manner in deliberately constricted atmospheres. O'Connor is too restless to have peaks. I loved last spring's record.
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
xpost no I think that's spot on.
― Tim F, Monday, 25 February 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
Universal Mother is underrated in my lonely opinion.
first record: "Let me try a bit of everything." Second album: "Let me try rock-inflected chamber music."
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
I really dug Faith And Courage -- No Man's Woman has stayed with me for a long time.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
I think "Fire On Babylon" might be her best track.
― ICANN Tina Turner (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 25 February 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link